W/HERE: ELIA Symposium

SYMPOSIUM LIVE STREAM

kozak — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:56:46 +0000

KEN LUM

kozak — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:07:15 +0000

From 2000 to 2006 Ken Lum was head of the graduate program in studio art at the University of British Columbia. He has been an invited professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, and the China Art Academy, Hangzhou.

Ken is co-founder and founding editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. He has published extensively, and a book of Lum’s writings, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, is forthcoming from Walter Koenig Books. He was the project manager for Okwui Enwezor’s The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945 – 1994 (2001); and co-curator of the 7th Sharjah Biennial (2005), and Shanghai Modern: 1919 – 1945 (2005). Ken has exhibited widely, including at the São Paulo Biennial (1998), Shanghai Biennale (2000), Documenta 11 (2002), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), and the Gwangju Biennale (2008).

GREGORY HENRIQUEZ

kozak — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:58:03 +0000

Gregory Henriquez is the managing partner of Henriquez Partners Architects and is the design architect for the Telus Garden, having recently completed the socially inclusive Woodward’s Redevelopment, the largest mixed-use project in the history of Vancouver. He has won many design awards including BC Lieutenant Governor’s Medals in Architecture for Coal Harbour Community Centre and Bruce Eriksen Place. Gregory was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2007.

Gregory is attempting to establish a common ground between aesthetics and ethics by forging a synthesis of theoretical explorations and community activism within the present realities of architectural practice. His work is founded upon the belief that meaningful architecture must be a poetic expression of social justice and community.

NIGEL CARRINGTON

kozak — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:39:05 +0000

Nigel Carrington is the Rector of University of the Arts London. Before joining the University in September 2008, Nigel’s career was in the private sector, including 21 years with Baker & McKenzie, the international law firm, where he was Managing Partner of the London Office and Chairman of the Firm’s European Region, and seven years with the McLaren Group where he was Managing Director and Deputy Chairman.

Nigel studied History of Art at the Courtauld Institute between 2005 and 2007. He holds a number of non-executive positions in the public, private and charitable sectors, including the position of Chairman at The English Concert, the internationally-renowned chamber orchestra.

RESOURCES

kozak — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:17:17 +0000

MOBILE WORKSHOPS

kozak — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:32:08 +0000

A series of ‘mobile workshops’ have been planned, with groups of 15 participants visiting a range of Vancouver’s cultural organisations, to experience how these themes manifest in the configurations of arts organisations today. Workshop options include:

New Approaches to Applied Masters Degrees: Masters in Digital Media, Great Northern Way

First Nations Culture and the Digital Turn: Museum of Anthropology

A Creative Commons for the City: W2 Community Media Centre

Alternative Models of Creation: Progress Lab 1422

KIERAN CORCORAN

kozak — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:09:29 +0000

Kieran Corcoran is Assistant Head of the School of Art, Design and Printing in the College of Arts in the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. He is Head of the Department of Design and is responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Visual Communications, Product Design,Interior Design, Furniture Design, Visual Merchandising, Professional Design Practice and Creative and Cultural Industries. He is a founding member and former chairman of the Galway Arts Festival, Ireland and was chairman of National Design Week.

Kieran has recently edited Art Futures: Current Issues in Higher Arts Education (2011) and Peer Power!: The Future of Higher Arts Education in Europe (2010). He is currently President of The European League of Institutes of the Arts.

AMBER FRID-JIMENEZ

kozak — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:24:39 +0000

Amber Frid-Jimenez is a designer whose recent research explores the role of design and technology in the formation and disintegration of communities under unstable conditions. Her work investigates the cultural mechanics of the network through experimental platforms and visual systems. Frid-Jimenez is an associate professor at the National Academy of the Arts in Bergen, Norway, a researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands, and an affiliate artist at the MIT Program for Art, Culture and Technology. Frid-Jimenez has presented her projects and research internationally and recently co-directed symposia at the intersection of design, technology and contemporary art with Ute Meta Bauer at MIT. She directed gestural design research at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she also taught in the Digital+Media Program.

Frid-Jimenez is graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory where she studied with John Maeda in Physical Language Workshop. Prior to beginning her degree, she researched the aesthetic, social and economic implications of collecting and mining large databases of text and video in the Cognitive Machines Group at MIT. Frid-Jimenez has a background in fine art and philosophy.

RANDY LEE CUTLER

nward — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:55:57 +0000

Randy Lee Cutler is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University with a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice. As an educator, writer and artist, Randy investigates the emergence of new cultural forms through an exploration of the intersections of gender, art, science and technology. She has a PhD in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, UK where she examined the subversion of the sciences in the surrealist enterprise. Whether through performance art, experimental video or creative/critical writing, her practice explores an aesthetics of embodiment. Randy has authored essays published in C magazine, Pyramid Power, fillip review, FUSE magazine, Vancouver Art & Economies, Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture, West Coast LINE, n.paradoxa, Backflash Magazine, Canadian Art and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art. She has performed and shown work at numerous Vancouver venues including the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Contemporary Art Gallery, VIVO, the Helen Pitt Gallery as well as the Tate Modern (Turbine Hall) for the Western Front, Latitude 53 (Edmonton, AB) and Outtakes Dallas Film Festival among others.

CARLA DELFOS

nward — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:31:40 +0000

Carla Delfos was born in The Netherlands and graduated from the Theatre school in Amsterdam 1976. She worked as an actress, theatre director and writer until 1988 and was involved in the organisation of international events and director of Foundation EuroTheatre from 1987 until 1989. She worked as a drama teacher in the Theatre school in Amsterdam from 1976 until 1999. She was a Board member of the Theatre school Amsterdam from 1982 until 1989 and played a role in the merger into the Amsterdam School of the Arts.

In 1989 she started developing the Founding Conference for the European League of Institutes of the Arts – ELIA, an international organisation now representing over 350 higher arts education institutions and universities in 47 countries. ELIA is the primary independent membership organisation representing all subject disciplines and has a membership of more than 350 arts institutions in 47 countries. Through its membership network ELIA promotes dialogue, mobility, research, sharing of best practice and activities between artists, teachers, administrators and leaders, altogether representing more than 300,000 art students.

Since the founding of the organisation in 1990 she is Executive Director of ELIA and guided the organisation to where it is today. In 1996 Carla Delfos was awarded by the French Government and was knighted Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2001 she was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Art by the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen; in 2009, an Honorary Doctorate from Columbia College, Chicago and Honorary Fellowship of Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

She serves in several national and international boards and sporadically teaches theatre.